What if rap “music” was never invented?

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Right now, it’s the most popular thing in the music world, overtaking more melodic and pleasing types of music like rock and pop.

But what if it had never been invented? What kind of music would reign supreme on the charts?

On a related note, was rock killed off the charts by rap, or was rock on its way out anyway?
 
Right now, it’s the most popular thing in the music world, overtaking more melodic and pleasing types of music like rock and pop.

But what if it had never been invented? What kind of music would reign supreme on the charts?

On a related note, was rock killed off the charts by rap, or was rock on its way out anyway?

I mean, you're basically asking us to erase the 90s at this point. Modern rap (and it's white contemporary, grunge) both came up around the same time and took hold in part because, well, pop SUCKED in the 90s. No, really. Look at the charts from 90-92. Coming off the 80s, we let some of the worst musicians take up radio airtime. Rap did us a favor in making it so that the likes of Bolton, Stevie T and Maxi Priest never saw another hit on the charts.
 
On a related note, was rock killed off the charts by rap, or was rock on its way out anyway?

Hair Metal and Nu-Metal did Rock no favors in the early and late '90s respectively.

Grunge, in between that, had killed itself from breakups of bands and actual deaths


For some reason, a reason that I do not know, Millennials either stuck on Autotuned Bubblegum Pop or Rap to put willingly in their ear holes.

Modern rap (and it's white contemporary, grunge)

Other than Faith No More, who were more Punk or Funk than Grunge, not really similar, other than both were on the airwaves in the mid '90s
 
Right now, it’s the most popular thing in the music world, overtaking more melodic and pleasing types of music like rock and pop.

But what if it had never been invented? What kind of music would reign supreme on the charts?

On a related note, was rock killed off the charts by rap, or was rock on its way out anyway?

Why is music in quotations? Are you insinuating that hip hop isn't music?
 
I mean, you're basically asking us to erase the 90s at this point. Modern rap (and it's white contemporary, grunge) both came up around the same time and took hold in part because, well, pop SUCKED in the 90s. No, really. Look at the charts from 90-92. Coming off the 80s, we let some of the worst musicians take up radio airtime. Rap did us a favor in making it so that the likes of Bolton, Stevie T and Maxi Priest never saw another hit on the charts.

Not just pop - most music from the 90s sucked. I should know, I grew up listening to it.

Why is music in quotations? Are you insinuating that hip hop isn't music?

It isn't good music, at any rate.
 
Right now, it’s the most popular thing in the music world, overtaking more melodic and pleasing types of music like rock and pop.

But what if it had never been invented? What kind of music would reign supreme on the charts?

On a related note, was rock killed off the charts by rap, or was rock on its way out anyway?

What do you mean by rap and rock in this case? There are many different sub-genres that all sound radically different from one to another.
 
What if rap “music” was never invented?

Right now, it’s the most popular thing in the music world, overtaking more melodic and pleasing types of music like rock and pop.
Gee, looks to me like OP really doesn't like rap music - to the point they even made a threat on alternatehistory.com asking what would happen if it never existed.

70%-80% of all music since 1990 is bad. And I grew up during the 90s.
Cool opinion.
 
What if rap “music” was never invented?

Oh, look out! We've got an intellectual over here! You literally sound exactly like me when I was 12. I mean, rap is far from my favorite genre of music, but I can see why people like it, and nobody likes a psuedo-intellectual elitist snob.

70%-80% of all music since 1990 is bad. And I grew up during the 90s.

What is heavy metal? Chopped liver? The modern heavy metal scene is actually pretty awesome.
 
Another spoken word genre takes over. Your choice of reggae, dancehall or London dancehall.

Fuck it.

2nd generation ska is taken up by disaffected black youth leading to 3rd gen gangster ska incorporating 1st gen record turntablism and eventually toasting over the horns along with the speak-sung political attitude. Two tone and later three tone out of SW and Cali destroy white party ska.

Not all ska is political, but all ska is explicitly anti-racist. Some of the biggest call out and brass section battles have been over the limits of southern poverty ska and its sexism.
 
What is heavy metal?
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I mean, you're basically asking us to erase the 90s at this point. Modern rap (and it's white contemporary, grunge) both came up around the same time and took hold in part because, well, pop SUCKED in the 90s. No, really. Look at the charts from 90-92. Coming off the 80s, we let some of the worst musicians take up radio airtime. Rap did us a favor in making it so that the likes of Bolton, Stevie T and Maxi Priest never saw another hit on the charts.

Michael Bolton is very talented and makes good music. Just because it’s not boundary-pushing doesn’t make it bad. He sings beautifully and makes well crafted music.

I’d much rather hear Time, Love, and Tenderness on repeat than hear Cardi B reciting pornographic obscenities or Lil Wayne rhyming “n***a” with itself or XXTentacion mumbling about how he can’t keep his d**k in his pants over a computer-generated beat.
 
I’d much rather people didn’t project their personal preferences as if they amount to a properly supported aesthetic critique grounded in comparative musicology. It makes them seem insecure about their preference or their social relationships and boundaries. My enjoyment of my preference, or the existence of something preferred by others, doesn’t lessen your aesthetic reception.

If the problem is with popular public cultural reception of particular music then the aesthetic content isn’t the issue is it?
 
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